Best Places to Find Expat Life Information, Ideas and Tips

Blogs by and about expats are a great place to find information, ideas, tips, and get a general feel for what it might be like to live elsewhere. Here are a dozen interesting expat blogs I’ve found recently.

Europe

Expat in Germany provides information about living in Germany (and a little bit about Canada). The author is a Canadian serial expat who’s also lived in Thailand, S. Korea and the US.

Not From Around Here, subtitled “Stranger in a Strange Land” is all about the adventures of a US transplant to the UK.

Emtpy Nest Expat is an American who seized the moment (kids grown, no grandkids yet) to lace up her traveling shoes. She’s lived in the Czech Republic and is currently in Istanbul, Turkey.

Adventures in Expat Land is the blog of an American writer living in the Netherlands, where her husband works with an international organization.

Latin America

Monday or Something is not an expat blog, per se, but an interesting account of what it’s like to live in a place for one month, then move on. So far the author’s published from several locations in Panama, Nicaragua, Belize and Honduras.

The Mexile looks at Mexico and the UK from a British point of view. Back in England now, he lived in Mexico for five years and loved it.

Wow, did this post miss the mark! Perhaps the title should be a bit more honest, more poignant. It should indicate that it’s simply a list of a few seemingly randomly discovered blogs. Perhaps it’d be a good idea to do a post that actually lists the tips and info via social media sites. These are available in many countries.
As a serial expat who’s lived in China, Hong Kong, India, and Peru, here are a few sites that actually do provide tips and info:http://bit.ly/ob0i7g This covers Mumbai and Lima. Better sites for all of Peru do not exist, unfortunately; these are valuable, however.)http://bit.ly/qgeTqo This covers popular sites for major cities in China.

Ouch, that was harsh! Is it possible, Nichole, that you missed the point — that following the blogs of expats in the country you’re interested in can provide lots of insight and insider information that you might not otherwise find?

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